Day 9
Weight Loss Tip while Walking to Lose Weight
If you are making a focused attempt to do what needs to be done when walking to lose weight, be careful to avoid being over conscious of the way you look today. You know that it won’t be long until you achieve your dreams! Maybe it’s longer than you want but don’t think about that, just remember it won’t take long. At the same time don’t pay attention to the appearance of others who don’t look how you want. This means any thought as in ‘you’d think they’d get their hair cut’, or ‘who’d wear that’ etc. Whenever you’re tempted, find something you do like and think how wonderful it looks, maybe your or someone else’s hair. Surround yourself as much as possible with people who are doing successfully what you are trying to do. Using a fitness trainer or role model can be helpful. We are influenced by what we observe to a greater or lesser degree. This is not about competition, this is about seeing and believing in your own success.
Try New Eating
Trial for 1 day a new eating pattern. For example I am experimenting with the following: Eat breakfast at 7 am and no food after 7 pm. Over those 12 hours I will eat 2 hourly, totalling 6 mini meals which will consist of 3 healthy snacks+ 1 meal + 1 breakfast + 1 meal replacement. This keeps hunger at bay and the meal replacement makes it easier to cut down calories for that one meal. Ask yourself: Did you like it enough to add it as a regular daily diet for a week? One day in a week? A one day booster? If not you could try another daily menu perhaps of prepackaged and diet foods. Does this suit you better? Perhaps focusing on making your own weight conscious meals will help you to lose weight. Shopping daily for ingredients adds to the steps you do. The time taken for cooking or preparing and thinking about future meals can be a distraction from eating now. None of these are for everyone. Cutting down as we have previously discussed is a basic but on top can be added any other food changes which will accelerate your easy weight loss. As with exercise where we are establishing walking as the basic support structure upon which you build other activities, a basically healthy diet can be supplemented with nutritionally balanced weight loss foods.
It’s January!
It may relate to the marker that a new year provides. We set deadlines for a reason, as well as reviews and these do focus our attention on issues. It also relates to the surfeit of good food and drink enjoyed even while eating and being weight loss conscious and ‘scaled down’. Chocolate, ham, turkey, pudding, don’t have quite the same pull. In some ways I look forward to returning to my normal food fare. However since I have enjoyed eating a bit more than normal I become focused on doing more exercise and of a different type, particularly fat burning. I’d encourage any feelings along these lines to take advantage of this incentive. It is a time when you can direct your agenda more powerfully before the ways of the world scatter your efforts a bit more. As the outer world’s influence is diluted over the Christmas holiday period, it gives you some time to focus on your agendas. This year though when you find other realities intrude on your walking to lose weight your fall back position is the basic walking to lose weight program. Whatever else don’t give up. Step back and when re-charged get focused!
The 31 Ways to Losing Weight Walking started as one task for each day of January but I realised it could apply at any time someone started so I changed it to Day 1 etc instead of Jan 1. January is a very good time to start your weight loss program! Do one extra weight loss task today which you’ve put off in the past.
